Screaming Queens

Monday September 17

7:00pm

Screaming Queens is a Documentary about transgenders and transvestites fighting police harassment at Compton’s Cafeteria in San Francisco’s Tenderloin in 1966, three years before the famous riot at Stonewall Inn bar in NYC.

Compton Cafeteria Riot

transwomen and drag queens working in the tenderloin district of San Francisco often took refuge in Gene Compton’s, an after-hours cafeteria. They would buy coffee and stay for hours, temporarily escaping te troubles of the street. After the owner began harassing them with discriminitory policies, the Queens formed an organization named Vanguard to fight for their rights to use the cafeteria. On a hot summer evening, after an unsuccessful picket, the owner summoned police to evict the queens and a riot broke out as they fought back.

Sometimes the Spoon Runs Away with Another Spoon

Saturday September 15th

2:00PM

Queer Colouring Book: Spoon Runs Away with Another Spoon, Bring your kids and friends who are interested in talking about gender, love and queerness, while sharing tea and colouring in a number of cute queer colouring books.

Friday September 14th

7:00pm

Men Against Sexism (MAS) was made up of almost entirely queer and trans prisoners. In the 70’s, they successfully changed a whole culture within Walla Walla prison where rape and ownership over queer/trans prisoners went from being a power and status symbol to a reason to fear for your life.

Their work had a ripple effect to all the other prisons in the U.S. Northwest and 10 years later, according to MAS member Ed Mead, there were no more instances of rape within Walla Walla.

This workshop will include a telling of the story of Men Against Sexism from their perspective and look at some of the ways they were able to challenge cultural norms which targeted Queer and Trans prisoners. Followed by a discussion of the methods and tactics they used to keep themselves safe, and how those concepts of self defense could be applied to our modern day struggles as Queer/Trans Communities.

G20:Robin Henry was the first G20 defendant to be convicted of Two counts of Mischief Over $5000 and One count of Masking with Intent for breaking windows at a Starbucks and Bell Store. Robin served 9 months under strict bail conditions before his sentencing.

In March 2011, Robin was sentenced to one year house arrest, followed by two years probation, a $5000 fine and 300+ community service hours. Robin is currently serving his sentence in London, Ont.

Fierce & Fabulous has just released 2 news zines to spread insurrectionary queer fervour to the deviant masses, and they cutely enough are looking fabulous. We have been doing the book-fair circuit with the zines but are looking for queermo’s across turtle island who are interested in using them to spread a fierce queer politic in their city.

Or if you have been waiting for awesome looking zines that people are dying to pick up, and trust us, these are hard to ignore, then drop us a line e-mail: fierce.n.fabulous1969@gmail.com. We are looking for queers who are interested in getting bulk orders 20+ to distro in your cities, we can offer whole sale prices, we just want people to read them.

Stay tuned in the future for our zine series on Queer Riots in North America, another great way of showing our crews just what queers can do.

Queers Read This

Size: 8 X 6.5″, Colour cover/insert, full bleed, 20 Pages

From the back cover:

“Queers Read This is for you when your pissed that our voices are only heard when talking in the “Gay Marriage Debate”. That our only representation on Television is dressing up fashion disasters or planning straight weddings.

Queers Read This is for when you hear chilling statistics like 100% of trans women in U.S. Prisons are sexually assaulted or raped, often by the prison staff. When your furious that the AIDS crisis didn’t “end” in the 90’s and people (read queers) are dying preventable deaths, or that way to many trans folk wind up in jail for “possession of illegal street drugs” when those drugs are the same drugs that a doctor wont prescribe them to help them transition.

Queers Read This is for you when your hoppin’ mad, or when you don’t get why those Queers are so pissed off…

Queers read this is for you…

Queers Read This was distributed originally as a leaflet at the June, 1990 Pride march in New York City.

For the 20th Anniversary of this leaflet, we offer you this piece of our history. The cultural references in this pamphlet are, at times, outdated and U.S. Centric, but the rage is timeless.”

Men Against Sexism

Size: 8 X 4″, Colour cover/insert, full bleed, 20 Pages

From the back cover:

“Men Against Sexism was made up of almost entirely queer and trans prisoners. They successfully changed a whole culture within Walla Walla prison where rape and ownership over queer/ trans prisoners went from being a power and status symbol to a reason to fear for your life.

Their work had a ripple effect to all the other prisons in the North West and 10 years later, according to MAS member Ed Mead, there were no more instances of rape within Walla Walla.

Men Against Sexism was a revolutionary queer and trans, poor and racialized group arming themselves with a solid class, gender and race analysis, along with guns, to make prisons safer for queer and trans prisoners from the inside out.

the brunch is fundraising to support members of our community who have to pay $1000 to the courts after volunteering to be sureties to get a friend out of jail. This is the latest in a chain of events targeting Queer/Trans folks in Guelph, Ont. Previously, 3 members of the Fierce & Fabulous Krew were attacked and arrested by University of Guelph police outside of an annual drag show in March 2010. These were targeted arrests of queers. Going after their sureties has been a continued attempt at criminalizing queers.

The Fierce N’ Fabulous Krew will be at the Hamilton Anarchist Bookfair this Saturday distroin’ our new zines and chatting up the cuties at our table. Stop by to pick up our new release on Revolutionary Queer/Trans Prison Gangs and a re-release of Queers Read This, the classic 90’s text from some fierce angry queers. We will also have a selection of queer interviews on CD and an Audio Zine of Towards the Queerest Insurrection. Click the link to read the bookfairs call out and find out the workshops.